Wilton's Lilly Wins Hermann Trophy

December 18, 1991|By STAFF REPORT

NEW YORK — Kristine Lilly of Wilton, a junior All-America midfielder/forward at the University of North Carolina, received the 1991 Hermann Trophy Tuesday as the nation's top collegiate women's soccer player. Lilly, Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, had 15 goals and four assists in helping North Carolina to a 24-0 record and a sixth consecutive NCAA Division I championship. She had five winning goals in the 19 games she played and won the award despite missing UNC's last five games while helping the U.S. National Team to victory at the first women's World Cup in China.